Christian Aid was founded in 1945 and established by the British Council of Churches as a way of financing aid, development and relief programmes for the world's neediest people. At present, Christian Aid is the official agency of 40 British and Irish Churches. It works where the need is greatest, regardless of race or religious beliefs, in more than 60 countries. It is supported by individuals of many faiths and of none. Christian Aid does not run its own programmes overseas but works through those of local churches and other organisations which alleviate poverty and help poor people to find their own solutions. It is committed to tackling the root causes of poverty and as a result spends up to 10 per cent of its income on education and campaigning in the UK and Ireland.

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Christian Aid works primarily through regional and local organisations in the developing world. Areas of interest include relief, resettlement, agriculture, community development, food security, health, water resources, development education and popular campaigning. Some funds are available for development and education work in the UK and Ireland. International Affairs topics funded are: International Development, Non-military Assistance or Aid, Food, Human Rights, Refugees and Immigration, Third World Issues. Grants are NOT given to individuals, except for a limited number of scholarships which are put forward by project "partners".

Area of work:

West Africa, East Africa, Central and Southern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia (Indian subcontinent), East Asia, South America, Central America, North America, Caribbean, Europe.

Number of staff: In UK & Ireland: 200, No staff are based overseas but has overseas "partners" in over 60 countries.

Church Army trains, employs and deploys evangelists to work throughout the UK and Ireland within five areas of focus: Area Evangelism: Church Planting: Homeless People: Older People: and Young People and Children. Its aims are to 'Share faith through Words and Action' and enable others to do the same.

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The Wilson Carlile College of Training: for evangelists. Evangelism a 3 year programme.

First Contact - 1 year evangelism opportunities - working along side an experienced Evangelist.

Area of work: Europe.

Number of staff: 350- full-time Church Army Evangelists 200- further staff.

CMS see itself as a community of mission service. Founded in 1799, CMS is an Anglican mission agency of the churches in Britain, that is committed to a holistic understanding and practice of mission. It has a strong emphasis on the centrality of evangelism, taking seriously the issues of justice, peace and reconciliation. Today's mission partners serve in a wide range of posts. They go at the invitation of the Churches within the Anglican Communion, of United Churches and of ecumenical interdenominational agencies. While affirming the principle that mission is the responsibility of the local church, CMS also believes that every Church has gifts to give and receive in mission.

Programmes & Events:

Sending and receiving people - from everywhere to everywhere, long and short term.

Financial grants.

Scholarships.

Group visits, especially young people.

Enabling exchange of people between parts of the Communion.

Education and training of people in mission and in support of mission in parishes in England.

Area of work:

East Africa, West Africa, Central and Southern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia (Indian subcontinent), East Asia, Europe.

Number of staff: 176 mission partners, 200 local evangelists, 150 short term partners.

Founded in 1836, CPAS is a mission agency working across the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, providing a wealth of resources for leaders of local churches. Our vision is to help build and develop the skills of the local church to become a nurturing community and evangelise people of all ages.

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Evangelism - a team of evangelists offering consultancy and training.

Leadership - training to enable leaders to become more effective in their local church ministry.

Patronage - CPAS acts as Patron to over 500 benefices. Vocations - support for those pursuing a possible call to ministry.

Grants - to support parish staff in areas of social deprivation.

Publications - resources to enable people to become more effective in evangelism, teaching and nurture.

Youth and children - excellent resources and training to encourage local churches with their nurture.

Ventures -Christian holidays for children and young people aged 8-19.

Falcon Camps - holidays for children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

To encourage Jewish people to come to faith in Yeshua (Jesus) as their Messiah; to support them in serving him as Lord in the light of Godýs purposes for them; and to equip the Church to be involved in this mission.

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UK - CMJ has workers in London and Manchester.

Israel - CMJ is the largest and most well established evangelical Christian Ministry in Israel.

Christ Church - More than a Churchýý.more than a Guest House. Built in the nineteenth century and located just inside Jerusalem's Old City, near the Jaffa Gate, Christ Church and itýs Guest House is a haven of peace and tranquillity amidst the bustle of the nearby Arab Market.

The Heritage Ministry - this ministry uses three of CMJ'S historic sites, including a former Baron's Palace in Tel Aviv, to inform Israelis and visitors about the history and significance of the sites and the process which led up to the establishment of the State of Israel.

Shoresh Study Tours - the purpose of these is to provide outstanding short-term tours that will help Christians become better acquainted with the Jewish roots of their Jewish Messiah.

Galilee Retreat Centre - Beit Bracha (ýHouse of Blessingý) is a beautiful place for retreat, prayer and healing at Migdal, overlooking Capernaum, Tabgha, the Mount of the Beatitudes, Bethsaida and the Decapolis, Tiberias, Mt Arbel and the Sea of Galilee. The centre is for Jewish and Arab believers in Jesus from Israel as well as intercessory Prayer Tours for Christians from overseas.

Schools - in West Jerusalem through its Anglican International School, Jerusalem, located in one of its historic buildings, CMJ provides excellent Christian-based education for local and expatriate children. Associated on the same campus is Makor HaTikva School where many of the students are children of Messianic Believers and local Christians.

Crosslinks

Founded in 1922 as the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society, Crosslinks is committed to an evangelical basis of faith and aims to link resources to needs in churches across the world, thereby facilitating biblical mission in a number of different countries. Specific objectives include:

Promoting a biblical approach to mission.

Facilitating evangelism, training and service.

Consulting with our partners of different countries, cultures and denominations.

Interchanging personnel so that resources can be strategically used wherever they are needed.

Enabling different parts of the world Church to share their vision for mission.

The small size of Crosslinks enables it to make decisions flexibly and speedily.

An Evangelical Anglican mission society which supports the ministry of around seventy English-speaking, international congregations in several continents and ministers to holidaymakers in Europe and the Mediterranean. Also publishes the Directory of English-speaking Churches Abroad.

Programmes & Events:

Managing the recruitment of and supporting Anglican Chaplains in countries where English is not the first language; and church planting of English-speaking, international congregations in Europe. Also organising and recruiting seasonal chaplains to pastor and minister to English-speaking holidaymakers in approximately twenty European and Mediterranean resorts. (Grants are not given to individuals).

Area of work:

Principally Europe; also Middle East and North Africa, South America, South Atlantic.

Melanesian Mission

In existence since Bishop George Augustus Selwyn began evangelisation of the Islands of Melanesia in the 1840s, the organisation exists to support the work of the Church of Melanesia in whatever way it can, whether financially, or through supplying personnel. In practice these days their main aim is to encourage the ongoing relationship in a spirit of mutual support, exchanges of people, and, always, prayer.

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A regular annual grant of £40,000 constant hospitality and support to visitors from the Province of Melanesia and those en route to and from it. Encouragement of experience programmes etc.

Mid - Africa Ministry (MAM)

Mid-Africa Ministry, formerly called Ruanda Mission, was a small daughter society of CMS founded in 1921. Initially the work in Africa was pioneered by doctors and there was a strong medical emphasis. MAM integrated with CMS in 2002 and the Church Mission Society is the legal successor to Mid-Africa Ministry.

Network for Anglicans in Mission and Evangelism (NAME)

NAME is the agreed follow-up to Section 2 (Mission and Evangelism) of the 1998 Lambeth Conference. A world-wide activist network of Anglican Bishops with their Dioceses. NAME's focus is to develop the Church's capacity for mission by helping Bishops to share vision and resources through agreed skilled exchanges and short term programmes.
Led by a board of Bishops and Archbishops drawn from across the Communion. The Chairman is Bishop French Chang-Him, with a programme committee of six.

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NAME's three key strategies:

Effective Global Communication.

Developing mutually supportive vision and strategy.

Facilitate direct exchange of skills and resources.

NAME is establishing a global web presence that will:

Provide space for sharing vision and resources, to promote direct discussion of issues, and facilitate direct partnerships between dioceses and provinces. The site is available to all bishops with their dioceses, with information and communication support from each region.

Publish agreed project requests, and seek volunteers and resources for short term skills exchange directly between the bishops and dioceses of the communion, Provide a means of exchanging prayer needs and information.

Completed Programmes:
NAME facilitated the Council of the Provinces of Africa (CAPA) training Programme for new Bishops. (June 99); the consultation of CAPA with the World Bank on the ongoing contribution of the Church to help fight poverty (March 2000); Workshop for Senior Church leaders from South Asia (Nov 2000).

Area of work: Global.

Number of staff: Executive secretary, Admin Asst and Website Officer Advisory Staff: Director of Communications, seconded in advisory capacity from the Diocese of Oxford.

The OBF was founded in 1841 to assist the financing of Anglican Bishoprics outside the British Isles. Today its task is:

To assist towards the endowment and maintenance of bishoprics in any part of the world.

By its Trustees to act as trustees of endowment funds of bishoprics in any part of the world.

Bishoprics may be within the Anglican Communion, United Churches of Churches in Communion with the See of Canterbury.

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The fund sends income to dioceses or provinces, from trust funds held specifically for these dioceses/provinces. Makes grants to bishoprics in any part of the world from a general fund to which bishops may apply for help for their stipends, other costs or to establish new or increase existing endowment funds. Holds endowment funds in trust for dioceses/provinces, and invested in Britain. Offers advice to bishops on endowment and investment policies.

Area of work:

West Africa, East Africa, Central and Southern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia (Indian subcontinent), East Asia, Australia and Pacific, South America, Caribbean.

Oxford Mission

Founded in 1880. The Oxford Mission consists of two Religious Communities, the Brotherhood and Sisterhood of the Epiphany and the Christa Sevika Sangha. It has houses in Indian and Bangladesh. Their work is pastoral. medical and educational and is carried on in the Dioceses of Calcutta and Dhaka. India: Father James Stevens (on loan from the Diocese of Calcutta and Sister-in-Charge, Sister Florence SE Bangladesh: Father Francis Pande BE and the Revered Mother Susila CSS.

PNG Church Partnership was founded as the New Guinea Mission in 1891, to support the Church in PNG - in prayer, by raising money and by sending staff - mostly for teaching and training posts these days. In 1977 the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea was inaugurated as an autonomous Province of the Anglican Communion, with five dioceses - and the mission changed its name to be more
descriptive of the work, and future relationship.

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Supports the general budget of the Province, priorities of which are decided by Provincial Council.

Sharing of Ministries Abroad (SOMA UK)

SOMA was established in 1978 with a vision to assist in the renewal of the Anglican Communion worldwide through short term mission. SOMA is now working from 10 sending countries, in about 70 different countries throughout the world.

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Our Mission Statement:
"SOMA works for the transformation of individuals and churches, and the healing of communities and their lands through the renewing power of the Holy Spirit by sending and receiving teams worldwide on short-term mission within the Anglican Communion."

We also from time to time arrange for individuals and teams to come to the UK to visit parishes and deaneries, under the 'Partners in Renewal' scheme. We also arrange international conferences to stimulate thinking about different aspects of mission.

Area of work:

West Africa, East Africa, Central and Southern Africa, South Asia (Indian subcontinent), Europe.

Established 1698 to produce and distribute Christian literature and to promote education both in Britain and around the world.

Today SPCK operates as a publisher of Christian books and a retailer of Christian resources in the UK, and has a grant-making arm (SPCK Worldwide working in association with Feed The Minds) which supports Christian communications and theological education around the world. SPCK is involved in a wide range of web-based activities including a website (www.assemblies.org.uk) which provides material free of charge for assemblies in primary and secondary schools.

The SPCK mission statement is to promote Christian knowledge by:

Communicating the Christian faith in its rich diversity.

Helping people to understand it and to develop their personal faith.

Equipping Christians for mission and ministry.

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UK Publishing approx 100 titles each year.

UK Bookselling 25 bookshops.

SPCK Worldwide in association with Feed The Minds:

Financial grants (typically £1 - 5,000).

Book grants to ordinands and college libraries.

Support for indigenous publishing and other Christian communications projects. Works both with Anglican Churches and Churches of other denominations.

Area of work:

West Africa, East Africa, Central and Southern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia (Indian subcontinent), East Asia, Australia and Pacific, South America, Central America, North America, Caribbean, Europe, Former USSR.

JMECA seeks to encourage support through prayer, giving and personal service for the Anglican dioceses of Jerusalem, Iran, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Gulf. Gifts by subscription, gift aid or legacy resulting from the Association's appeal are allocated in consultation with the four dioceses and the Central Synod of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, and are used to maintain and develop pastoral, medical and educational work in areas where there is great need.

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Income used to maintain and develop pastoral, medical and educational work in areas where there is great need. Financial grants. Scholarships.

The Mission to Seafarers was founded in 1856 as the Missions to Seamen and combines a ministry of practical help with word and sacrament. The society's fulltime chaplains work in over 100 ports and part time Chaplains in a further 200 ports, showing God's love for seafarers who are away from their homes and families, by visiting ships, offering them a welcome at our centres, listening to their stories and problems, and giving spiritual and practical help. Through our centres, some run with other denominations, the seafarers welcome the opportunity to relax, meet people other than fellow crew members, worship with other Christians, enjoy some recreation and use email, telephone and postal facilities to keep in touch with their families. Chaplains help individual seafarers or crews with work-related problems, such as non-payment of wages, unsafe or unsatisfactory conditions or those being denied their human dignity. They speak out for justice and work with owners, managers and others who want to see such pactices eradicated.

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Appointing and funding chaplains to serve in various parts of the world in
partnership with provinces of the Anglican Communion.

Training in the ministry to seafarers for those appointed locally.

Encouraging Christians worldwide to offer a ministry to seafarers.

Working in ecumenical partnership with other Christian Churches.

Publication of information and educational materials for seafarers and
parishes.

Offering opportunities to young Christians to assist chaplains in different
parts of the world through our voluntary service scheme.

Area of work:

West Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, Middle East, South Asia (Indian subcontinent), East Asia, Australia and Pacific, South America, North America, Caribbean, Europe,UK.

Number of staff: 89 full time staff/chaplains 200 part-time chaplains.

‘USPG: Anglicans in World Mission’ works in direct partnership with Anglican Churches in over 50 countries, enabling them to reach out to poor and marginalised communities in practical and life-changing ways.

In practise, this means helping local churches to run schools and hospitals, build houses and wells, and provide agricultural training for subsistence farmers. USPG also supports church outreach, theological training and youth work programmes.

USPG runs a range of mission personnel programmes, recruiting priests, teachers, medical workers and other staff in Britain and Ireland, as requested by its overseas partners. USPG also sends personnel between churches around the world and provides volunteers, clergy and church workers from Britain and Ireland with an experience of the world church by sending them on short-term placements overseas.

Churches and individuals in Britain and Ireland can be involved with USPG and world mission through prayer, fundraising and its speakers programme.

USPG publishes a range of publications - from its quarterly newspaper Transmission and prayer diary to worship resources for Harvest and Lent - which can be ordered free of charge.

Founded in 1701 as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG), USPG is one of the oldest Anglican mission agencies. In 1965 it merged with the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa and the Cambridge Mission to Delhi to become the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG). The name was further changed to USPG: Anglicans in World Mission in 2007